The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume IV G Greene, Christopher page 399 GREENE, Charles Warren, scientist, was born in Belchertown, Mass., Aug. 17, 1840; son of William and Harriet Baker (Gavit) Greene; grandson of Ebenezer and Sibyl (Hitchcock) Greene and a descendant of Thomas Greene, probably a native of Leicestershire, England, who is supposed to have settled in Ipswich, Mass., about 1635; removed to Malden about 1650 and died in 1667. Charles was graduated from Brown in 1863; enlisted in the U.S. volunteer army, July 19, 1862, and served till July 9, 1865, rising to tire rank of captain. At the close of the war he resumed his study and was graduated from the medical department of Dartmouth in 1868. He practised his profession from 1868 to 1872, after which he devoted his time to [p.399] scientific study and literary work, directing his attention mainly to etymologic and ethographic studies after 1887. He edited Lippincott's Gazetteer (1879); Worcester's New School Dictionary (1883); and Lippincott's Biographical Dictionary (1886); and is the author of Animals; Their Homes and Habits (1886); Birds; Their Homes and Habits (1886); and numerous contributions to periodicals and encyclopædias